This happens a lot: Right-wing groups and media outlets use detrans people to further a transphobic agenda, arguing that their existence invalidates all trans people.
2020, Rowan Hildebrand-Chupp, "More than ‘canaries in the gender coal mine’: A transfeminist approach to research on detransition", The Sociological Review, Volume 68, Issue 4, page 812:
Research on supporting detrans could enable a variety of interventions designed to help detrans people.
2021, Helen Joyce, Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality, unnumbered page:
They [detransitioners] find each other online: on Twitter, where they use the lizard emoji to signal their detrans status, […]
2021, Vanessa Slothouber, "Narratives of De/Retransition: Disrupting the Boundaries of Gender and Time", thesis submited to Western University, pages 37-38:
The fear is, then, that (White, cisgender) children and adolescents are being diagnosed with gender dysphoria and undergoing medical transition at alarming rates while, simultaneously, more and more individuals are ‘coming out’ as ‘detrans’.
2021, Elie Vandenbussche, "Detransition-Related Needs and Support: A Cross-Sectional Online Survey", Journal of Homosexuality:
The aim of this study is to analyze the specific needs of detransitioners from online detrans communities and discover to what extent they are being met.
Noun: "(LGBT, informal) the process of detransition"[edit]
2020, Rowan Hildebrand-Chupp, "More than ‘canaries in the gender coal mine’: A transfeminist approach to research on detransition", The Sociological Review, Volume 68, Issue 4, page 800:
Research associated with the goal of supporting detrans is defined by its focus on the experience and process of detrans itself.